Whenever I come across a movie that I wish to watch, I make it a point to bookmark its IMDb page using del.icio.us. Like this. But what good is this online bookmark collection when I am standing at my local video store wondering which movie to take?

Since accessing the Net over GPRS is ridiculously pricey (and slow) and city-wide wifi isn't coming anytime soon, I wrote this hack to carry my movie bookmarks with me, offline.

towatch.py is a python script which first fetches the list of bookmarked movies from del.icio.us using feedparser. It then gets movie info from IMDb using IMDbPY. It takes all this data and spits out a nice xml file using cElementTree.

Finally, there's towatch.xsl written by Bala. It makes the xml file pretty to look at in a web browser. You can print out the list of movies from the browser and there you have it: your very own movie watching experience augmenter!